First impressions with Musubi's new Rasa paper.
It feels soft but smooth. It performs best with medium nibs or narrower. Broader nibs with wetter inks and feeds come up at least a size up. My Pelikan M1005 with a medium nib and Sailor Souboku became almost a BBB.
It loves saturated ink but multi chromatic ink doesn't come out well. Dry time is fast no ghosting or bleed. Great paper for journalling.
Wild sheen. Carbon black shines silver. Vinta Dugong Bughaw off the charts.
More testing with the Rasa paper. It can do multichromatic shading & do it really well. Way better than quick writing samples suggested.
Most of these are done with a brass Kakimori dip nib. All but the last which is with a BB titanium Bock nib which normally behaves like a B. This paper seems to really like titanium nibs.
A bit more feathering and some bleed through with this massive amount of ink.
I'm starting to really like this paper. Less waxy and crinkly than Tomoe River. #fountainpens
@jonsinger yep, it's generally around the Nitrogen level of sheen but on some papers I've got it doesn't quite do that. In a Dingbats notebook it's much more subdued, same with Rhodia I guess. What I found notable here was that it dried quite quickly like it would on those other two but retained the sheen I'd seen on Tomoe River.
That pic is brilliant. I'll have to get some shimmer to add to it. I had a sample of Van Diemen's ink Starlight (?) that looked very like that.
Tom Carding
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